December 11, 2007

Writers, Aliens, and buns in the oven

Tonight while flipping through the channels on the boobus tube, I found a showing of "Mars Attacks." Got me to giggling up a storm, all those strange brainy aliens running around capitulating, ACK - ACK ACK!! *zap!! Jack Nicholson, Annette Benning, Glenn Close, Tom Jones, that is one star packed B movie. I recommend it for anyone needing a good laugh :)

The weather has gotten very cold of late, makes the skin shiver out of doors, and want to be snuggled in tight while indoors. Winter time is when my birthday happens, we'll see which sweet slaves remember Mistress right!

In other news, a new indie movie has been released called Juno, about an young pregnant woman, and her relationship with the new adoptive parents. While the subject matter might sound at first like typical Lifetime television fodder, I'd have to say this looks like an interesting trip. Diablo Cody, screenwriter, and director Jason Reitman were recently interviewed on Fresh Air with Terry Gross (N.P.R. radio). It sounds like a quirky, insightful, entertaining flick. That and, Diablo Cody, who gave birth to this story herself, talked honestly about her previous experience as a stripper, and a phone sex operator, during the Fresh Air interview.

An interesting twist to Cody's story? She was discovered as a writer, because a studio/editor found her phone sex operator blog, thought she was an amazing writer, and gave her the opportunity to write the screenplay.

There may be there hope for me yet :)